Ayaz Mutallibov

Ayaz Mutallibov (12 May 1938-) was President of Azerbaijan from 30 August 1991 to 6 March 1992 (preceding Yaqud Mammadov) and from 14 to 18 May 1992 (succeeding Mammadov and preceding Isa Gambar).

Biography
Ayaz Mutallibov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union in 1938, and he became a refrigerator factory director in 1964 and the general director of a state industrial company in 1974. He also rose in the ranks of Azerbaijani politics, and he became Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR in January 1989. On 24 January 1990, four days after the Soviet Army cracked down on nationalist unrest in Baku, Mutallibov became First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party, and he became the republic's first president on 30 August 1991. He endorsed the August Coup in Moscow, but, in September 1991, he dissolved the Communist Party and proposed constitutional changes. He became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, and he was forced to resign in March 1992 due to his mismanagement of the Nagorno-Karabakh War; he returnedto power on 14 May, but he was overthrown in a military coup four days later. Mutallibov went into exile in Moscow for the next several decades.